Long-term ketogenic diets can lead to declining thyroid hormone production, increased cortisol, higher advanced glycation end products, decreased testosterone, and reduced fertility in women. — Whalespan
Long-term ketogenic diets can lead to declining thyroid hormone production, increased cortisol, higher advanced glycation end products, decreased testosterone, and reduced fertility in women.
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“I would Define long term as anything over than a few days many of you won't even get into ketosis by then but the high level summary of that is declining thyroid hormone production increasing cortisol the level of the adrenals increasing stress on the body and other ways increased production of advanced glycation and products like methylglyoxal decreased hormone production testosterone increased sex hormone binding globulin which means decreased levels of free testosterone etc etc decreased fertility we know that progesterone can decline in a ketogenic diet I've seen this over and over that when women go keto their Cycles shorten or they become amenorrheic
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